Southern Exposure was an award-winning print journal published by the Institute for Southern Studies, publisher of Facing South, from 1973 until 2011. Southern Exposure earned a national reputation for its writing on a broad range of political and cultural issues in the South, with a special emphasis on investigative journalism and oral history.

On the 50th anniversary of Southern Exposure’s birth, Facing South and the Institute will be publishing a full digital archive of the journal over the course of the year. The initial installment of the archives available in March 2023 includes issues from the magazine’s launch in 1973 through 1981.

Vol. 12 No. 6 - November/December 1984
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Liberating Our Past: 400 Years of Southern History

  • Liberating Our Past

    2

  • Guale Indian Revolt

    Carolyn Stefanco-Schill

    4

  • "Impatient of Oppression"

    Peter H. Wood

    10

  • Red and Black in Appalachia

    Theda Perdue

    17

  • Tombee

    Theodore Rosengarten

    25

  • The Lives of Slave Women

    Deborah Gray White

    32

  • The Lowest Rung

    Victoria Bynum

    40

  • Sugar War

    Jeffrey Gould

    45

  • Steel Workers in a Boom Town

    Barbara J. Mitchell

    56

  • "The Mind That Burns in Each Body"

    Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

    61

  • Anti-Labor Violence in the 1930s

    Robert Ingalls

    72

  • You Can't Be Neutral

    An interview with Anne Braden, by Sue Thrasher and Eliot Wigginton

    79

  • Rewriting Southern History

    An interview with C. Vann Woodward, by James R. Green

    86

  • Who Speaks for the South?

    Nell Irvin Painter

    92

  • Bitterness and Pride

    Ronald D. Eller

    93

  • Past and Present

    Gary McDonogh

    95

  • A Southern Sampler

    Cliff Kuhn

    96

  • Something That Happened to Me

    George McDaniel

    102

  • Theater and History

    John O'Neal

    103

  • High-Tech History

    Jack Bass

    103

  • History from Southern Exposure

    108

  • New Books on the South

    110

  • Southern News Roundup

    111

  • Bulletin Board of the South

    115

  • Voices from the Past

    116
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